English
Etymology
From Old English wíf (adult female, Modern English wife) and man (human being). There is a folk etymology deriving woman from woe to man, based on the role of Eve in the Judeo-Christian myth of the Garden of Eden, but it has no historical basis.
Noun
woman (plural women)
- An adult female human being.
Antonyms
Translations
adult female human being
- Albanian: Grua , femër
- Arabic: مرأة (marʔa)
- Aragonese: muller f
- Basque: emakume
- Breton: maouez f -ed pl
- Bulgarian: жена f
- Catalan: dona f (ca)
- Chinese Characters: 女
- Chinese: 妇女
- Czech: žena f
- Danish: kvinde c
- Dutch: vrouw f
- Esperanto: virino
- Estonian: naine
- marama (Vosa Vaka Viti )
- Finnish: nainen
- French: femme f
- German: Frau f (de)
- Guarani: kuña
- Hebrew: אישה f
- Hungarian: nő
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- Icelandic: kona (plural konur )
- Ido: Muliero
- Indonesian: perempuan, wanita
- Interlingua: femina
- Irish: bean (gen. sg. & nom. pl. mná, gen. pl. ban)
- Italian: donna f
- Japanese: 女 (おんな, onna) / 女性 (じょせい, josei)
- Korean: 여자 (yeoja) / 여성 (yeosung)
- Latin: femina f, mulier f
- Lithuanian: moteris f
- Norwegian: kvinne
- Persian: زَن (zæn)
- Polish: kobieta f
- Portuguese: mulher f
- Romanian: femeie f, muiere f
- Russian: женщина f
- Slovak žena f
- Slovene: ženska f, žena f
- Spanish: mujer f
- Swedish: kvinna c
- Tok Pisin: meri
- Tupinambá: kunhã
- Turkish: kadın
- dynes f
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Derived terms
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